Topic
Potsherd
6 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 2:8Easton · ISBE · Nave Fragment of earthenware
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Proverbs 26:23Easton · Smith · ISBE
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
- Isaiah 45:9Easton · ISBE · Nave Fragment of earthenware
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
- Job 41:30ISBE
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
- Psalms 22:15ISBE
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 22:7ISBE
Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
A “shred”, i.e., anything severed, as a fragment of earthenware (Job 2:8; Prov. 26:23; Isa. 45:9).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 1 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
pot'-shurd (cheres): A piece of earthenware (Job 2:8; Ps 22:15; Isa 45:9). the Revised Version (British and American) renders the word in Pr 26:23, "an earthen vessel," and in Job 41:30 substitutes "sharp potsherds" for "sharp stones." Sirach 22:7 refers to the art of "gluing a potsherd (ostrakon) together."
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.